Workers ‘will pay for recovery’ says Sunak
‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...
Bma Slams Profits Before Patients
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...
Israeli war planes bomb Jabaliya refugee camp! – scores of children are killed
ISRAELI warplanes bombed the Al Jabaliya refugee camp again yesterday morning, killing scores of children, burying them in their homes. Extending just one square kilometre,...
Nurses Work For Free!
‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...
Obama Threatens China!
US President Obama has angered China over his plans to expand the American military presence in Australia. In an address to the Australian Parliament yesterday...
Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley
‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...
LABOUR MUST DELIVER A REVOLUTION – says Matt Wrack on eve of FBU conference
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) annual conference opened in Blackpool yesterday. On the eve of the conference union leader Matt Wrack said, ‘No one in...
‘Robbing the dead and the dying’
Relatives and widows of the thousands of men who died from asbestos-related cancer, yesterday expressed their determination to fight on after the Law Lords...
‘We will win this dispute!’ says John McDonnell at Heathrow
‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...
MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
Sacked Athens cleaners daily pickets
THOUSANDS of workers and students rally every evening to the ERT building (State TV and Radio corporation) in an Athens suburb demanding the withdrawal...
2.03m JOBLESS – Bring down Brown and nationalise
UK unemployment has risen above two million for the first time since Labour came to office, official figures revealed yesterday. During the three months to...
WITHDRAW CHASE FARM CLOSURE – Enfield Council legal challenge
Enfield Council has condemned health secretary Andrew Lansley’s authorisation of the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments. It has also declared...
‘Ignore us at your peril!’ – nurses warn Tories
SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...
Nigeria Shut Down By General Strike!
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC) and civil society groups yesterday shut down the entire country at the beginning of...
Johnson wins vote to cut foreign aid – but majority reduced to 35
TORY PM Johnson faced Tory rebels in the House of Commons yesterday over whether to continue the foreign aid cut of 0.5% of GNI...
Keep Chase Farm NHS Open
THERE were 40 pickets outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning, including local residents and staff. Some had travelled from as far afield as Luton and...
Occupy to stop Ealing closure
EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...
Gaza City facing urban destruction by Israeli fire power and forced displacement
THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...
123,000 Children Spent School Holiday Homeless
MORE than 123,000 children and their families have spent their school holiday homeless, an increase of around 53,000 since the summer holidays of 2011,...
Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures
FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...
End Middle East wars says Corbyn!
‘THE WAR on terror isn’t working,’ Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said in his first speech since the Manchester terror attack. The speech...
Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!
CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...
‘Passengers still being mugged’
‘PASSENGERS are still getting mugged,’ Manuel Cortez, leader of the TSSA railworkers union said yesterday after Transport Secretary McLoughlin announced that he was capping...
Unilever Pensions Action
A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit corporate giant Unilever’s UK operations as workers step up action to defend their final...
Labour landslide victory in Oldham West
PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour’s win in the Oldham West and Royton by-election shows its ‘strength and the appeal of its anti-austerity...
BROOKS RESIGNS! – Murdoch disarray continues
NEWS International chief executive Rebekah Brooks resigned yesterday morning, thrown overboard by Murdoch as he sought to get a grip on News International’s runaway...
Coulson Crisis Deepens
Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure after it was announced yesterday that MPs will hold an emergency debate in...
Global economic crash looms!
ALMOST half of UK stock market investors fear that markets are seriously overheating, raising fears that a major world wide economic crash is imminent,...
RCN: ‘Not a single unoccupied bed!’
‘ON EVERY day except Friday last week, several hospitals across England didn’t have a single unoccupied bed,’ Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing, Policy and...
WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran
United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth
SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...
Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!
DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
Ban zero -hours!
‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...
Trade unions must draw up their own cost of living index
YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...
‘Gate Gourmet Can’t Get Away With This!’
Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...
Hague Stokes Up War On Syria
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday tried to get the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian terrorist ‘rebels’ and to stoke up...
CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! – as Royal Mail gets injunction declaring CWU strikes...
POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...
PCS Second Week Of Strike Action!
THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...
Brown Attacks Unions On Pay
In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Chancellor Gordon Brown declared for ‘New Labour renewed’. Assuming he will succeed Blair as...
HALT FAILING NHS POLICIES – doctors’ leader urges Blair
The leader of the UK’s hospital consultants will today call for a halt to the government’s health privatisation policies that have ‘failed to improve...
MASSIVE PART-TIME WORKING – as young workers wages cut by 10%
THERE are nearly one-and-a-half million workers and youth in the UK who want full-time work but are working part-time because they cannot find full-time...
Itv 24 Hr Strike!
BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...
‘ALL OUT ACTION!’ – demand Langley strikers
Yesterday workers at Royal Mail’s Heathrow Airport Worldwide Distribution Centre at Langley came out on 24-hour strike at noon, as part of the Communication...